Ester asked why people are sad.
“That’s simple,” says the old man. “They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.”
-Paulo Coelho
"The Zahir"
Quotations
Dream
Talk about a dream, try to make it real
-Bruce Springsteen
Sometimes we give up our dream to accept a larger role in someone else's dream.
-Robert Brault
Lost dreams may help you find new dreams.
-John Charles White
We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more intelligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.
-Erich Fromm
If a man wants his dreams to come true he must wake up.
-Habeed Akande
Judge your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
-Gail Godwin
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
-Henry David Thoreau
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
-William Faulkner
